2017专升本英汉翻译.ppt

2. All these factors tend to promote social change, by opening more areas of life to decision. * 由于有更多的生活的领域要去选择， 这些因素都会促进社会的变革。 3. In the first kind of society, material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; * 在一个社会里，社会的变革更有可能也更频繁地发生在文化的物质方面，而不是非物质方面，比如技能方面而不是价值方面。 4. Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp dichotomies(一分为二). * 而且，社会的变革如果社会逐步地，那就更容易些。例如，有可能在人们的关系上发生持续的变化，而不是突然地发生一分为二的变化。 5. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts. * 这就是为什么同其他少数民族相比，变革没有更快地发生在美国黑人的身上的一个原因。因为黑人与白人的不同太明显了。 6.There is an advertisement in newspaper which urges you to change our life habits, with the suggestion that if you do so, by adopting (采用)seven easy-to-follow items of life style, you can achieve eleven added years beyond what you will get if you don’t. * 报纸上有一则广告极力劝说你改变生活习惯，还说如果你采取七种简便易行的生活方式，寿命会增加十一年。 7. Accordingly the more intelligent rich men work nearly as hard as they were poor, while rich women for the most part keep themselves busy with innumerable trifles of those earth-shaking importance they are firmly established. * 因此很多富翁差不多还在努力工作，好像他们还很贫穷一样。 而大多数有钱的太太则忙于无数琐碎事，而她们却坚信那是震撼世界的大事。 8. Work is therefore desirable, first and foremost, as a preventive of boredom, for the boredom that a man feels when he is doing necessary though uninteresting work is as nothing in comparison with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with his days. * 因此工作是人需要的， 首先，工作可以预防无聊，因为一个人在做必须做的而又无兴趣的工作时所感到的无聊与终日无所事事所感到的无聊相比，是微不足道的。 9. But there is every reason to think that as we learn more about the physiology of the brain, we shall do so, and that the great philosophical problems about knowledge and will are going to be pretty fully cl